Essays on Movie Page 50

To exercise our sociological imagination, we had a film viewing of the indie film “Ded Na Si Lolo” by director Soxie Topacio last 8 July 2010. This film was all about a family who lost an important loved one—their father. Charing, one of the main characters, is one of the children. One morning while she…

The one thing I have constantly realized I’d like to do with my life is to help individuals. I’m applying to graduate school in social work because having any kind of effect in individuals’ lives is the most significant part of a future profession to me, then some other. By qualifying as a social worker,…

In our society everyone has a different view on how you should act and how they should be raised. When we look at the beginning scene of the movie Divergent, it talks about how the human race is split up into five different groups. Each of the groups were created so that society could maintain…

In The Blind Side, there is a troubled young man named Michael Oher who faces many difficulties throughout his life which later plays into his development as a teenager in high school. Michael’s father left him shortly after he was born, and his mother was addicted to drugs. Michael was seemingly trapped in a dangerous,…

On April 7, 1943, he was severly wounded at Sebkhet en Noual, when Allied fighte strafed his vehicle. He lost his left eye, right hand, and last two fingers of his Ie ft hand after surgery. Col. Stauffenberg was sick of seeing Hitler’s Nazi organization in rule of Germany so he took a big step…

In the film The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, the main character Benjamin Braddock is seeking to find his place in the world following his college graduation. Ben has an affair with his family’s friend Mrs. Robinson, but ends up falling in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine. From a historical, marxist and gender perspective,…

The Glass Menagerie is a four chapter memory play written by Tennessee Williams that reflects upon his own unhappy and dysfunctional family. With this being said, the narrator in the play, Tom Wingfield, resembles Tennessee Williams himself. The setting takes place in the winter and spring of 1937 in St. Louis and symbolically reflects the…

In the film Divergent, directed by Neil Burger, people that are different are viewed negatively. In the case of the main character, Tris starts out in Abnegation but has trouble being fully selfless like the rest of her family. When it is time for Tris to take her aptitude test, something goes wrong in her…

Whenever people face a risk, they question themselves whether the risk is worth taking or not. Are all risks worth taking? Personally, I do not believe that all risks are worth taking. However, some are and when you do take them, the outcome is almost always positive. The ability to take calculated risks is truly…

My reason for pursuing a Master’s of Social Work is to work as a LCSW and counsel individuals who have been through trauma, specifically members of oppressed groups. Although I am young, I have lived a trying life that has inspired me to pursue a career of counseling as a social worker. I have been…